** Description changed: [Impact] - * Systems fail to boot in certain status of mdadm arrays, requiring + * Systems fail to boot in certain status of mdadm arrays, requiring manual recovery / array assembly - * Backport of boot logic from yakkety + * Backport of boot logic from yakkety [Test Case] - * Install a system with RAID1 and two hard-drives and boot the system with array in-sync - * Shutdown - * Disconnect one of the drives and thus boot, unexpectedly, degraded - * The boot should complete. - * Shutdown, and boot again, expecting degraded state. - * The boot should complete. - * Shutdown, reconnect disconnected drive, and boot again. - * The boot should complete, the array should be resyncing, and results with system with array in-sync, just like at the beginning of the testcase. + * Install a system with RAID1 and two hard-drives and boot the system with array in-sync + * Shutdown + * Disconnect one of the drives and thus boot, unexpectedly, degraded + * The boot should complete. + * Shutdown, and boot again, expecting degraded state. + * The boot should complete. + * Shutdown, reconnect disconnected drive, and boot again. + * The boot should complete, add the device to the array, the array should be resyncing, and results with system with array in-sync, just like at the beginning of the testcase. [Regression Potential] - * Systems may continue to fail to boot degraded. + * Systems may continue to fail to boot degraded. [Other Info] - - * Original report + + * Original report mdadm does not attempt to start partial md devices (incremental assembly) during initramfs and can cause system to fail to initramfs prompt if rootfs on md. http://askubuntu.com/questions/789953/how-to-enable-degraded-raid1-boot- in-16-04lts Fixed in debian mdadm 3.4-2: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784070
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